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>>8346198
You haven't actually read it, have you?

>>8346198

great post

When does it really start getting good?

I love what Gaddis ive read, but J R is just a bit dry the first 40 pages in

A hot cup of tea, a good book, and a comfy chair <3

>>8346160
Include cats, glasses, short girls, and reddit in this list

it's inescapable op

>>8346075
Let the plebs have their fake understanding of philosophy OP, this literally does no harm.

Stoics? More like st[upid]oic[uck]s

Seneca et hoc genus omne
Das schreibt und schreibt sein unausstehlich weises Larifari,
Als gält esprimum scribere,
Deinde philosophari.

t. Nietzsche

Wow, she's richer than Trump

>>8345967

Trump has 4.5 billion says google

>>8346015
Her franchise is worth 15 billion

>>8345933
Good dialogue
Touches on my fears or hopes
Good characters
Foreshadowing that is not obvious on the first read
Anything that deals with the human condition

If you need to study it for information.

Otherwise, you get the first time around.

I suppose someone would do it for some "comfy" meme reason, but I think that's silly.

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this m8

>>8345906
storm of steel- earnst junger. germans soldier story of his time in ww1. good insight to what is some of the worst fighting conditions in human history.

MEIN KAMPF

I don't know if I'll get around to reading the second volume, but the first one was extremely interesting. I knew that I didn't know a whole lot about Hitler or his beliefs, but it really shows how much he and his views are distorted in the media.

"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature." is a good summation of one of his main modes of thinking.

I know this is the wrong thread to say this, but I feel like my posts never get enough exposure on this site.

Sometimes I'll put a good thirty minutes into perfecting a post, only to get one response. I end up samefagging a thread for hours in the hope of getting a second (you). Sometimes it's worth the effort and I get a stream of "excellent post" comments coming in, but sometimes I get nothing for my effort.

I haven't been saving these posts anywhere. I'm never going to have an opportunity to publish them. If I ever happen to write a good poem in the poetry thread, what's to stop someone else from just stealing it?

All in all, I don't know why I want attention and approval so badly, and I don't know why I choose to seek it here of all places. I've sunk thousands of hours into this website. For what?

Do you guys think an upvote system would improve this website? Frankly I like the way reddit allows you to quietly give feedback by hitting the up button. Even if only three people to respond, you might have twenty upvotes. Hell, I've made threads that got 300+ upvotes on reddit, it feels amazing. And if I go back I can still see them.

Not sure why I'm posting this here. Mostly because I think this thread has potential and I'm getting in on the ground floor—more exposure.

Only Holden-esque children think that Catcher is shit

>>8345812
t. Holden-esque child

>>8345852
t. Holden-esque child

>"Should I get an agent?"
Dude, if you can convince an agent then YES go get an agent.

Here's the breakdown on what I've learned and you can take the advice or leave it.

Check out a podcast on YouTube called "the self publishing podcast" it's three guys who churn out lots of genre work and have really nailed down how to move units to their target demographic. There's lots of episodes so add the words "Mark lefebvre" "dan wood" "draft2digital" "kobo" or "going wide" to the narrow the search to the episodes that will rEally help. I've learned more in 6 hours with these guys than I have in the past year. They'll explain bookbub, the world markets, why you should or should not go with KDP select, etc.

Knock yourself out dude.

>>8345774

if your book is any good or sellable, yes, you should try to get an agent

on the other hand, if you just want your book "published," have no standards, and want to spend your time marketing your book instead of writing, then you should self-publish

>>8345811
not op, but thanks for the advice, will do

>>8341343

i just want to remind the monoglots on this board that his name is not pronounced nee-chee nor nee-chuh, but neets-shuh.

>>8345775
Yes, I knew that.

>>8345768
Thanks for the reference.

>>8345733
No, but reading The Fountainhead as a teenager helped me become a worse version of myself. Took me a couple extra years to grow the fuck up.

Nope.

>>8345733
I would recommend being abstemious toward self-help books.

Coaching books are great. They teach you a little about a sport in addition to being self-help books. You get the lessons primarily from people who are dominant within their field as well.

>>8345690
Objectively? Mine.

It ain't published though, so good luck with that.

>>8345690
Just learn Spanish you fucking pleb

>>8345690

Having read some of it in Latin, I think it is a work that would be relatively easy to translate. I would get an older translation that preserves his sentence structure better. It's imbecilic to say this style is "alien to English" when the first millennium of English prose was written in something like it. People who think it's hard are just plebs who should read more.

>>8345675
Speedreading doesn't exist. However, my boner...

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>taking a few weeks to read Middlemarch
>someone sees me with it a few times
>"Wow anon, you sure are taking a while on that!"
MFW

>>8345675
Speedreading can work if you're reading something that essentially should have been a short essay but was stretched into a book. Pop science, self-help, basically anything that's garbage. Doesn't work on fiction or philosophy though, if you try it with those you're going to at best get an understanding of the overall work and nothing more- and if that's all you were seeking, you could have just read the wikipedia description of the book and it would have been faster still.

It's v cozy. A good break book if you've been reading a lot of dense shit lately. Reminds me faintly of Lewis, like a book I read long ago in my childhood but somehow forgot about.

>inb4 gaiman is a pleb posters

>>8345653
Neil Gaiman is a phenomenal writer. My only
problem with his works is he lacks somewhat
creative means of dropping in characters. By that I mean the
fantastical side is simply put in place. Not much build up. It's really well written and wont
disappoint.

Plebs

The Sodom and Gomorrah thing, part 2.

waves of invasion of 'inferior' people by pretentious standards

but might makes right

>>8345646
Hahahaha no. Unless you count self published, which I don't.

>>8345646
No but I got some research published which was fun

I did. Ask me anything.